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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Mon Jul 7 07:33:06 2008, in response to Re: How will WMATA run 3 services on two tracks?, posted by Sand Box John on Sun Jul 6 20:44:44 2008. Interesting. What's also very interesting is the U.S. News & World Report article is that its about a Linthicum, Maryland protest about the Baltimore Central Light Rail line, less than two years after the line opened.The protest went nowhere, BTW. During the pre-construction period of the CLRL, BSM members attended many of the hearings and the same type of argument came up at almost every hearing. We always spoke in rebuttal, and our statement was "they will arrive, break into your house, steal things, and leave the way they arrived - in a car. If you think somebody would steal a TV and then lug it to a station where they might have to wait 15 or 20 minutes for a train, you're pretty dumb." It shut down the argument that transit brings crime every time, except in Ruxton and Riderwood, where the mindset is still very much alive 16 years after the line opened. The MTA solution was not to build stops there. |
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